I bet that at some point of learning you second or third programming language you wished that someone just told you what was different or new from the new language you were learning. Ruby’s syntax can be quite different from what you are used to but the core ideas of programming stay the same.

Join us in this series of posts where I will show you what I’ve learned from ruby and the similarities with other languages so that you won’t have to relearn.

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Check out the first of a series of posts where I will show you how to work with facebook’s api. In this post you will make a facebook connect website that will allow you go get a user’s information.

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JQuery has functions to load text and to parse json but it does not have one to read xml, we’ll teach you how to make your own xml reading javascript function in this post.

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JSON is just as easy to read as XML. More and more APIs are beginning to use JSON , and JQuery has made it easy for us to parse their responses.

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Learn to use Zend to cache output from a script using front end and back end options. This is probably one of the easiest way to implement cache in your scripts.

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A really simple PHP class to read YouTube video feeds. This class will be great for your next mashup!

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Eclipse can be extended to work with C++, PHP, Javascript, Python, Ruby and even HTML. See what plugins I’ve been using that have helped me switch from Notepad++ to Eclipse, and then I bet you will too.

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When people think of content management systems they usually think of Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress, and I bet most people wished they had one of these systems installed in their site so that they wouldn’t have to call ( an pay) their webmasters every time they want to make a change. Well, here are two solutions that benefit both parties.

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Sometimes you need to loop through a set of classes, tag or id’s. JQuery makes this an easy task.

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Build, compile and test your first android application using Eclipse IDE. This video goes over the basics of making an Android phone application. You will be building android apps in no time.

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Fancy up your site by performing an action when a user mouses over and out of the elements in your site.

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In this JQuery tutorial I will show you how to load an external javascript file after a web page has finished loading. You’ll be loading scripts in less than 2 minutes so check it out!

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Now that you’ve played with events, effects and attributes it won’t take you long to learn AJAX, am going to show you how to use the three JQuery AJAX functions I use the most.

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I need a way to embed one or more different Amazon products on my site, on different pages, and be able to move them ALL around at once.

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JQuery makes it insanely easy to manipulate all attributes of HTML tags. This means that you can dynamically assign attributes with their values to any tag in html. See how it’s done.

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We previously talked about events and up this point you probably have not seen any advantages to using JQuery other than than you have to type less, well, your perception about this javascript library is about to change.

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I’ve always hated sign up forms, especially the really long ones. My approach to any type of forms, whether it be sign up, contact or sale forms has always been “if it’s not required don’t ask for it”. Let me show you how to let people sign in with their emails without having to send them a verification link first.

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There is an easy way to add drop caps to all posts and it’s this way.

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Factorial limitations in Java data types It is sometimes difficult to realize when good data has gone bad. If not careful, a data type may overflow past it’s range and return an undesirable result. The output below shows the most accurate results for each data type as the factorial of n (n!) increases by one […]

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This is the continuation of my previous post in the JQuery tutorial step by step. In this post I will show you how to use events like click on keyup – onclick and onkeyup is what you call them if you are new from Javascript.

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